Discuss items in the urban core outside of Downtown as described above. Everything in the core including the east side (18th & Vine area), Plaza, Westport, Brookside, Valentine, Waldo, 39th street, & the entire midtown area.

You can't have that high a percentage of low income residents in any one building. The goal should be 10-15 percent of apartments rented to low income residents unless it's a seniors-only apartment community. Most tenant problems are among younger people. Seniors are pretty-well behaved.

You need to have a high percentage of market-rate renters who will not tolerate bad neighbors, and whom keep renters with behavioral problems in check--meaning they complain.

If standards are low, then bad actors will rule the building, and other low income residents with standards will be too afraid to complain. Building management makes a HUGE difference as well.

The other thing is that it's often not the actual residents per se causing the problems, but their VISITORS. Many low-income residents are women with bad actor family members, ex-husbands, and boyfriends, or just shady friends in general. This is where management has to make it clear to residents that THEY will be evicted if their visitors cause any more problems.

beautyfromashes wrote:As many mistakes as the homes association has made in that neighborhood, you have to give them some credit for getting MAC to buy these and then to keep them from tearing them down for a new build.

beautyfromashes wrote:As many mistakes as the homes association has made in that neighborhood, you have to give them some credit for getting MAC to buy these and then to keep them from tearing them down for a new build.